Nonsynchronous motor



May I5, 1928.

V. A. FYNN NONSYNCHRONOUS MOTOR Original Filed July 5, 1924 Patented May 15, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

VALERIE L m, ST, LOUIS, HIBSOURI.

NONSYNGEBONO'US MOTOR,

opposing the formation, of working currents n the exciting or power factor controlling circuits of the motor. This application is directed to subject matter more particularly disclosed in Fig. 5 of the parent application. Theobjects and features of this invention will clearly appear from the detailed description taken in connection with the ac-.

so companying drawing and will be pointed. out

in the claims.

Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing diagrammatically represents a two-pole embodiment of my invention, Figs. 2 and Bare explanatory diagrams. These figures are reproductions of Figs. 5, 8 and 9 of the parent application.

Referring to the Fig. 1 which represents a two-phase motor, the rotor, which is the secondary, carries a squirrel cage winding 2 adapted to take care of the load currents and a commuted winding 3. adapted to take care of the secondary exciting currents and from which more or less of the load-currents can :5 be excluded- A polyphase arrangement of brushes4, 6 and 5, 7 coo crates with the commuted winding, all of t e brushes being insulatingly carried by means of a brush rocker 43 which is movable andnormally 4,0 under the control of the spring 44 which holds the movable brush rocker arm against the stop 45. The stator or primary carries two windings 11, '12 displaced by 90 elecload current of the main motor circulating trical degrees and connected to the supply. 46 The stator also carries auxiliary adjustab windings 13 and 49, the first being coaxial with-11 and the second. with 12. The auxil-' iary two-phase motor 40, 42, 47 is'adapted to move the brush rocker arm 43 through the 60 shaft 48 and the. ear wheel 46 engaging with 43. This au iary motor comprises an ordinary squirrel cage rotor 47 and a stator provided with the two inducing windings 40,42. The windin is connected to the as supply in series wit the main motor windpressed on the commuted winding 3throu%h 8 tions in the primary current of the motor this application fled Augult 8,

ing 11 andthe winding 42 is connected to the supply in series with the main motor winding 12. .The auxiliary voltage E derived-from the auxiliary winding 13 is imthe brushes 5, 7. The auxiliary voltage derived from 49 is impressed on the co muted winding by means of the brushes 4, 6. The magnitude of the auxiliary volt es can be changed but not their phase. l he phase of the working voltages with which these auxiliary voltages cooperate can, however, be modified by dis lacing the movable brush rocker arm 43. this arrangement this arm is displaced in response to variawhi'ch variations correspond to changes in the slip of the machine. At ,no load the brushes 5, 7 are displaced .by about 90 electrical degrees from the auxiliary winding 13 to which they are connected and this disa placement increases with increasing load.

The same holds true of the brushes 4, 6 and the winding 49 to which they are connected. It will be understood that while a twophase arrangement of brushes on the secondary has been shown in connection with a two-phase primary, this coincidence of phases as to primary and secondary is by no. means necessary. 'The primary may carry 11 windings and the secondarymay have an m-phase arrangement of brushes, in which the number m differs from the number 11 and both are greater than one. In Fig. 1 the polyphase arrangement of brushes is movable. At no-load the brush rocker arm 43 is under the control of the spring 44 and rests against the stop 45. The inducing windings 40, 42 of the auxiliary motor 40, 42, 47 are each connected in series with one of the windings 11, 12 of the main motor and so dimensioned that with the nothrough these windings the rotor 47 of the auxiliary motor does not exertenough torque to move the brush rocker arm 43 away from the stop 45. But as the load on the main motor increases 47 overpowers 44 and 43 is moved in a counterclockwise direction and with the rotation ofthe secondary and of the basic magnetization of the machine. 1

When 43 is in its no-load position the brushes5, 7 are practically in 11118 with the axis of 12 and the brushes 4, 6 practically in 7 line with the axis of 11. The auxiliary volt- 110 the 1) ages E, and E derived respectively from the auxiliary stator windings 13 and 49 are at this time of the proper phase to excite the motor from the secondary, as shown in Fig. 2, where B, indicates the axis of the brushes 5, 7 and the phase of the working voltage 0, which at no-load is very small, positive and not shown in Fig. 2. At no-load all of E, does duty as a, in the circuit of the brushes angle d by which the brushes have been displaced from their original no-load position. The magnitude of e, and e simply changes with the sli regardless of the space location of the rushes. When the brushes are moved by 47 from the axis B of Fig. 3 to the axis B, in response to an increase in load then 6, increases from the very small value it had in Fig. 2 to the value e shown in Fig. '3 and it is seen that E, now leads e, by more than 90 degrees. Under these conditions, the auxiliary voltage E, introduced into the brush circuit'5, 7 is decomposed into a component 0', which leads e, by 90 degrees and a component a, which leads it by 180 degrees. The auxiliary motor and the spring .44 can be so dimensioned that the workingcurrent-o posing-component a of E is at each loa practically: equal to the correspending working voltage 6,, in which case t e exciting winding 3 will be kept practically free from! load 'currents. It is seen that under the conditions named and shown in Fig. 1 the component 0 responsible for the excitation of the secondary, diminishes with. increasing brush displacement,

that is with increasing load, because E,

' remains constant as to magnitude unless adjusted by hand. A very satisfactory way of operating the embodiment shown in Fig. 1 is to so select the magnitude of the auxiliary voltages that the power factor of the motor will be unity at a selected load, for instance at full load, and leave the magnitudes of these introduced voltages constant, allowing the power factor to rise with falling load and to'fall when the load exceeds the selected load.

, For the purposes of this specification the power factor is considered best or highest when the primary current leads the'terminal voltage by 90 degrees; it is considered worst or lowest when the primary current lags 90 degrees behind the terminal voltage.

Throughout this specification the arm primary member is applied to that member which carries the windings connected to the aaraoso supply, which windings carry the line working currents, and whether or not these primary windings produce the revolving flux of the motor which flux always revolves synchronously with respect to the primary member. The other member is referred to as secondary, whether or not it carries a winding or windings which produce all or a part of the revolving flux.

It is immaterial whether it is the secondary orthe primary which revolves, the mode of operation remains exactly the same. When the primary revolves it rotates against the direction ofrotation of the revolving field or of the basic magnetization of the motor. The commuted winding is then located on the stationary member and the cooperatin brushes revolve with the primary. Brush displacements are the same when referred to the revolving flux but opposite when referred to the direction of rotation of the revolving member.

It is well known that any motor can be operated as' a generator provided it be driven by a prime mover at a suitable speed, and it is also generally recognized that nonsynchronous polyphase motors are no exception to this rule. It is further known that in the case of an asynchronous motor the voltages generated by the primary flux in any winding on the secondary change their direction when the machine passes from sub to super-synchronous speeds. Whenever necessary this condition should naturally be taken into account when operating the motor here disclosed, or any similar motor, as a generator. Thus, when desirin to oppose the formation of any but exciting currents in the exciting winding 3, by injecting auxiliary voltages into said winding, it 1s necessary to see that said voltages have components which are of proper direction to oppose the volta es concurrently generated in said winding y the primary flux of the machine, whether the machine. is used as a motor or operated as a generator.

In operating the machine here disclosed as ,a generator the system of brushes 4,5, 6, 7

- tating their description and understanding, but it is to be understood that I do not bind made in the details of this disclosure without departing from the spirit of this invention, and it is, therefore, to be understood that this invention is not to be limited to the specific. details here shown and described. In

the appended claims I aim to cover all the modifications which are within the scope of my invention.

What I claim is a 1. In an asynchronous polyphase motor, a primary, a secondary, a plurality of windings on the primary adapted for connection to the supply, a closed and a commuted winding on t e secondary, a polyphase arrangement of brushes cooperating with the commuted winding, means for impressing polyphase voltages of line frequency on the poly phase arrangement of brushes adapted to ex-' cite the machine from the secondary and thus control the power factor of the motor,

and means for displacing said brushes adapted to cause components of the impressed polyphase voltages to oppose the formation of working currents in the commuted wind= ing.

2. In an asynchronous polyphase motor, a

- primary, a secondary, a plurality of windings on the primary adapted for connection to the supply, a closed and acommuted winding on the secondary, a polyphase arrangement of brushes cooperating with the commuted winding, a polyphase arrangement of auxiliary windings on the primary of a number of phases equal to that of the polyphase arrangement of brushes, an auxiliary winding being included in each phase of the polyphase arrangement of brushes and located inanaxis displaced from the axis of said phase, and means for displacing said brushes adapted to oppose the formation of working cur'rentsin the brush circuits.

3. In anasynchronous polyphase motor, a

primary, a secondary, a plurality of windings on the primary adapted for connection to the-su ply, a closed and a commuted wind ing on t e secondary, a polyphase arrangement of brushes cooperating with the commuted winding, means for impressing polyphase'voltages of line frequency on the polyphase arrangement of brushes adapted to control the power factor of the motor, and

automatic means dependent on the load on,

the motor for displacing said' brushes and adapted to oppose the formation of working currents in the brush circuits.

. 4, In an asynchronous. polyphase motor, a

primary, a secondary, a plurality of windings on the primary adapted for connection to the suppl ,8. close and a commuted windmgon t e secondary, a polyphase arrangement of brushes cooperating with the commuted winding, means for impressing polyphase voltages of line frequency on the polyphase arrangement of brushes adapted to excite the machine from the secondary and thus control the power factor of the motor, and means for varying the position of the brushes whenever the slip of the motor changes whereby formation of working currents in the brush circuits is op sed.

5. In an asynchronous polyp ase motor, a primary, a secondary, a plurality of windings on the primary ada ted for connection to the supply, a closed an a commuted winding on the secondary, a polyphase arrange ment of brushes cooperating with the commuted winding, means for impressing polyphase voltages of line frequency on the polyphase arrangement 'of brushes, and means for displacin said brushes in the direction of rotation of the revolving field of the motor as the load on the motor increases to cause components of the impressed polyphase voltages to oppose the formation of working currents in the commuted winding.

6. In an asynchronous polyphase motor, a primary, a secondary, a plurality of windings on the primary adapted for connection to the supply, working and exciting circuits on the secondary in inductive relation to the primary, means including a commutator and brushes for introducing into the exciting circuits on the secondary slip frequency voltages adapted to excite the machine from the secondary and thus control the power factor of the motor, and means for displacing said brushes adapted to cause components of the introduced slip frequency voltages to oppose" cuits on the secondary slip frequency currents adapted to excite the machine from the secondary and thus control the power factor of the motor, and means dependent on the load on the motor for displacing said brushes adapted to cause components ofthe introduced slip frequency voltages to oppose the formation of working currents in the secondary exciting circuits.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature this 30th day of'July, 1926.

VALERIE A. FYNN. 

